Belt



April 22 1924.

M. SACHS BELT Filed July 11 1921 m m m m A TTORNEYS.

Patented Apr. 22, 1924.

UNITED STATES 1,490,941 PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS SACHS, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HICKOK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC., OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BELT.

Application filed July 11, 1921. SerialNo. 483,659.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS SACHS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belts, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to belts and more particularly to the type in which one of the belt ends is turned in rear of a portion of the belt to provide a loop by which the buckle of the belt is secured, detachable means being provided between the turned end and the portion of the belt in front of the turned end through which the turned end may be readily connected or disconnected from the front belt portion, and loops being provided on the front belt portion through which the other end of the belt may be passed.

An object of this invention is to provide a novel means of detachably securing the turned end to the front belt portion so that the securing means will not interfere with the passage of the end of the belt under the retaining loops.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter described, the novel featuresbeing pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front view of one end of a belt constructed in accordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the end of the belt shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged edge view partially in section of the two ends of the belt.

Fig. 4 shows in detail one of the fastening devices employed in this invention.

Referring more particularly to the drawings 1 indicates the belt and 2 the end turned in rear of the belt to provide a loop in which the anchoring device 3 of the belt buckle 4 is secured, the form of this anchoring device and the form of the buckle being not important so far as this invention is concerned. The front portion of the belt adjacent the end forming the loop 2 is provided with retaining loops 5 (two in this instance) and the opposite end 1 of the belt, after being passed through the buckle 4, passes through these loops over the front face of the loop belt end.

Prior to this invention the means by which the rear end 2 has been detachably secured to the front portion of the belt has projected from the frontface of the belt and interfered with the'passageway of the end 1 through the retaining loops 5, but according to this invention, the retaining devices are flat on the exposed or front face of the belt and lie substantially flush with such front face so that the belt portion 1 may be readily passed through the loops 5 and may lie flush against the front face of the end portion adjacent the loop. In this embodiment of the invention, the rear portion 2 of the loop is provided with a socket device comprising a resilient socket element 6 of known construction passed through the portion 2 from the inner face thereof and engaged by a cap member 7 which grips the periphery of the resilient cup shaped member 6 to retain the two parts of the device to the portion 2, a covering cap 8 being provided over the gripping cap 7 to ornament the latter. On the front portion of the loop a headed device 9 is provided which is in the form of an outer projection with a flange 9 and has its base arranged on the inner face of the front portion of the loop. This headed device is secured in place by a retaining device in the form of a projection 10 with a flange base 11, the projection extending through an opening of the front loop portion andinto the hollow projecting portion of the headed member, being secured therein in a well-known manner. The flanged base 11 is thin and flat and is covered by a piece of thin flexible material 12 which is held to the flanged base 11 by a flat disc 13 havin a surrounding annular flange 14 which b1nds the edge of the flexible material 12 in engagement with the periphery of the flange 11. As the covering material 12 and plate 13 are comparatively thin and flat, they lie substantially flush with the front face of the front loop portion and provide no interference with the passage of the. front end 1 through the retaining loops 13, while at the same time permit the end 1 to lie flat against the front face of the loop end of the belt. The fastening devices for the loop also serve for fastening the securing stra 15 which acts to limit the movement 0 the retaining loops 5 on the belt.

From the foregoing it will be seen that there has been provided in a belt of the type having an end turned rearwardly to provide a loop through which the buckle is secured to the belt, detachable fastening means for the loop which have their front or exposed faces substantially flush with the front face of the belt so that no interference is provided for the insertion of the other belt end through the retaining straps adjacent to the loop end of the belt.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In combination with a belt having an end turned over the rear face of the adjacent portion of the belt to provide a loop, a buckle secured by said loop, and retaining loops arranged on the front portion of the belt; fastening means for securing the turned end to the front portion comprising a resilient socket device carried by the turned end and a headed fastening device carried by the front portion and projected from the rear face of said portion, said headed device embodying two parts one of which is in the form of a tubular headed projection with a flange base lying on the rear face of the front portion and the other of which is in the form of a tubular projection with a flange base, the tubular projection extending through the front portion and into the tubular projection on the rear face of the front portion, said last named member having a flat covering substantially flush with the front face of the belt so as not to interfere with the passageway of one end of the belt through the retaining loops.

MORRIS SACHS. 

